CORRESPONDENCE. 
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There is also another case in the hospital with another quittor 
to be operated on, and I hope to be able to report them for the 
.Review in some future issue. 
I have information from three other members of the profes¬ 
sion who have operated for quittor, and they report their cases 
to have recovered in from four to six weeks. I hope that ari} r of 
the readers of the Review who have had experience with this 
operation will report the case for publication. 
M. Bunker, B.S., D.V.S. 
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OPERATION FOR CARTILAGINOUS QUITTOR. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
Dr. Bryden furnishes a criticism to one of your late issues, 
on the above named subject. ■ I confess it difficult to under¬ 
stand exactly why he criticises the operation. He admits never 
having performed it, and I infer from his article that he never 
saw it performed, and that he is unacquainted with the object for 
which the operation has been adopted. He “ hopes the operation 
may prove as successful on a quittor just forming as one ‘over 
six months ’ old ! ” Indeed ! Why not remove all the cartilages 
as a preventive measure against cartilaginous quittor ? I suppose 
on the same principle we should treat pleurisy by puncturing the 
thorax at the onset on the disease, so that if hydro thorax does 
take place there will be a hole in it ready for drainage. What 
is the use in waiting until there is water in the chest ? If punc¬ 
turing dosen’t cure the pleurisy when “ just forming, ” operating 
when there is water there may be “ only another of the ingenious 
tortures to which the profession so often subjects its poor pati¬ 
ents.” The profession in my neighborhood doesn’t remove cartil¬ 
ages before they are diseased. Neither do they treat cases of quittor 
“ six or eight months from the first opening of the sinus V They 
don’t adopt that kind of treatment, for it is not considered either 
humane or least expensive. 
Yours, &c., 
L. L. 
